When you kill someone your first thought isn’t normally how did I end up here and where is here, it’s normally I just killed someone (or at least I think it is). From what it looks like Ron, Hermione, and I are in the space between two buildings in Diagon Alley. So naturally we're confused one minute you just killed Voldemort the next you're in Diagon Alley or at least it looks like Diagon Alley. It's the same shape and some of the shops are the same but most of them are completely different.
As we started to get cleaned up and get the blood off of our faces and change clothes. ‘Thank god Hermione still had her purse with the undetectable extension charm on it’ when Ron asked finally in somewhat normal clothes the first of many questions “Mates, where are we?” looking just as confused as I felt.“It looks like Diagon Alley but it looks different like some of the shops are missing” Hermione claimed while peeking her head out of the alley way. “I’ll go try and get a Daily Profit, to see the date.” I vocalized to Hermione and Ron. Who looked at me skeptical but let me leave the alley way to try and find one.
As I walked out of the alley about five steps I saw two people walking up to me at a decently fast pace. “Oi James why’d you run off” a man who looks vaguely like a younger Sirius wearing almost all black and or leather with what looked like a pendant around his neck exclaimed quite loudly, and what looked like a less aged and scar stricken Remus in an almost too big cable knitted sweater holding the other man's hand. “Yeah James I thought you left us to snog Evans for a moment” the man who looked like Remus remarked. The one who looked like a younger Sirius took me by my left arm and started walking off more or less dragging me along with them.
I look over my shoulder to see Hermione and Ron looking at me with a concerned look.“So where did you run off to James, and where did Peter go wasn’t he with you” The Sirius look alike proclaimed. I looked ahead in the crowd and saw what looked like my dad and a younger Peter Pettigrew talking.
They must have spotted the Remus looking guy because he stuck out of the crowd from being so tall. And called out once they got closer to us “Oi Sirius, Remus where did you go we were looking for you” The one who looked like my dad yelled. “What do you mean where did we go? Where did YOU go we’ve been looking everywhere for you” The one who at this point I could only assume was a younger Sirius yelled back.
“Wait who’s that?” younger Peter asked timidly while pointing at me like I'd kill him for asking. The younger Remus looked at me with a weird look and inquired “Yeah who are you?” As I looked around the group I spoke up “My names Harry” I proclaimed hesitantly while looking at who I could only assume was James Potter.
“Wow could have fooled us, you look just like him, say are you two related?” Remus questioned, looking confused. “You could say that” I mumbled “Yeah James you never said you had a long lost brother” Sirius said in a joking tone completely ignoring my earlier comint . “I don’t at least that I know of. Who are you?” James demanded. As I looked around for a way out I saw my saving graces pushing their way through the crowd to get to where we were.
“Harry where did you run off to” I heard as I looked over I saw Hermione charging with Ron following in her path. The minute she recognized Remus she stopped charging over and looked at me confused. But Ron just kept on walking towards us until he got right next to us when he stopped and looked at me then Hermione then the other a stupidly inquired “Aren’t you guys DEAD?”. Then as if a light bulb went off in his head he slapped his hand over his mouth.
Hermione was giving him a death glare as if it would actually kill him when Remus asked “What do you mean ‘Aren’t you guys DEAD’ I’m pretty sure where all alive” “No I just mea-” “shut it Ron” Hermione demanded, just then James whispered something to Sirius who nodded. Sirius then whispered to Remus who also nodded. Ron and Hermione were still arguing in the background while I watched the others whisper to each other when I yelled “Hermione, Ron SHUT UP”.
Then everything just went black.
When I woke up it looked like we were in a prison cell with four grimy walls, one door and a small window in the top right corner. Hermione and Ron were already awake. Hermione was pacing back and forth on the right side of the room, and Ron was just sitting in the left corner watching her pace. Suddenly the door started to open and a man who looked like a younger Frank Longbottom said harshly “Come on get up”. He and, if I remember correctly, Dorcas Meadowes escorted us to a room that was giving me flashbacks to my hearing at the ministry for using underage magic outside of school.
They sat us down behind a table and put three vials in front of us full of a clear liquid. A man who looked like a less aged Dumbledore proclaimed loudly “You three will drink the two drops of the liquid in the vials we have provided and answer some of our questions.” ‘VERITASIUM’ I stood up and yelled back “We’ll drink the two drops if you have one of your own to do the same and we can ask them questions.”. The younger Dumbledore looked disgruntled but nodded and spoke up “would you like to pick which one of us?” “Yes. I pick Peter Pettigrew.” I said as I pointed at him.
He looked as if I just accused him of murder. I could name some of the faces in the crowd of order members like Marlene Mckinnon holding hands with Dorcas Meadowes, Fabian and Gideon Prewett, Mundungus Fletcher, a very pregnant Alice Longbottom standing next to Frank Longbottom, and Emmaline Vance, Mary Macdonald, Of course Remus, Sirius, James, and Peter that was about it all the ones I knew off the top of my head. As I was scanning the crowd I saw a very pregnant redhead standing next to James looking at us concerned.
As they got another chair for Peter we took the two drops of veritasium each. Once Peter took his two drops and sat down they tied all of us to the chairs. And Dumbledore started asking the questions.
“To start off the questions what are your names Peter you start and will go from there” “My name is Peter Enid Pettigrew” My name is Hermione Jean Granger” “My name is Ronald Bilius Weasley” “Hold up a Weasley I thought the last one was only a few months old” “Same” “Where getting off topic” Dumbledore announced.
The next question was “When were you born” Peter started “September 9, 1960” then Hermione spoke up “Don’t think you want to know” Dumbledore's eyebrow raised in question and repeated the question. She looked over at us apologetically and answered “September 19, 1979” As I looked around the room they were all in shock. “How, the date is June 12 1980 you should only be 9 months old”. I heard who I could only assume was Marlene yell almost accusingly. After the whispers died down Ron states “March 1, 1980” there were less whispers this time. I was next and stated with almost no hesitation “ July 31, 1980”. I saw everyone looking at me like I was crazy for like 5 minutes so Ron yelled “are you going to ask the next question”
“This question is to Ms.Granger, Mr.Weasley, And what was your name again?” “Harry” “and Harry where did you go to school” we all replied at almost the same time “Hogwarts”. There were mixed reactions among the crowd. Are any of you all Animagists” Ron responded with a “yes, we all are ''Do you mind showing us your forms ''Fine” Hermione replied begrudgingly and turned into her otter form. After she turned back Ron turned into his Jack Russell Terrier form and back to himself it was my turn I turned into my quite frankly average size my eight point buck then back and almost the whole room was staring at me.
I heard “Wait what was this kids last name again”, “yeah” and more similar inquiries till Dumbledore spoke above the rest of the crowd “What was your last name again” to which I responded “I didn’t tell you my last name in the first place” “So what is your last name then” Dorcas spoke up with an eyebrow raised. “Oh my last name is Potter, full name being Harry James Potter” I said like it's the most obvious thing in the world.
“What do you mean Potter”, “I thought James was the last Potter”, “I told you James had a long lost brother”, “That doesn’t explain the birthday”, “What if thats Lily and James’s baby”, “Is that the Potter heir”, and other whispers among the crowd.
“I think it’s our turn to ask the questions” mione proclaimed matter factly “Fine”.
Marlene admitted “Harry, would you like to ask the first question to the Rat in the room” Almost the entire room looked confused by the wording Ron chose to use but didn’t ask any questions. “Peter do you mind showing the room your left forearm” “yes I do” “and why is that” “It's a long story” “We have time” “I’m good” then Gideon interjected “yeah Peter why don’t you show us your Left forearm”.
The tensions in the room could be cut with a knife. After what felt like years both Frank and Emmaline Vance went running up to Peter. Frank untied him and held him down as Emmaline pulled up his left sleeve to just past the forearm. Only to see the rat had turned out to live up to his name. The Dark mark plaguing his skin almost looked real the longer you looked at it.
You could hear whispers amongst the crowd, most just barely holding back the urge to attack him. I could see Remus holding Sirius’s hand to stop him from leaping up and attacking the rat. “Peter we…trusted..you……why?” James trying to hold back tears. “It was this or I got killed!” “I would've died rather than betray my friends” aloud Sirius yelled Remus was still holding his hand this time his nucleus turning white.
“Aurors Frank Longbottom and Mundungus Fletcher please escort Peter to the ministry to be handled correctly” Dumbledore commanded as they escorted Peter out of the room. “Why did you tell them?!” Peter yelled as the door shut.
“You ruined our lives once were not letting that happen again” Ron yelled but the door had already closed. “What do you mean ‘You ruined our lives once’” Remus asked, almost scared to hear the answer. “He almost single handley started the second wizarding war” Hermione said like it was common knowledge. “If there was a second war… that means the first one ends who kills Voldemort” Mary asked.
“I’ll just stay there in this room” Harry said sarcastically “and the rest die before the end of the second war” Lily, Alice, and the Marauders looked devastated at those words “Harry can you please tell us who stops him both times''. Harry looked Lily right in the eyes and said “Me”. That's when Marlene spoke up with “Did you grow up with parents, Harry?” “No they were killed when I was one, I didn’t meet Sirius or Remus till I was 13”.
“How did you get that scar on your forehead?” One of the people in the crowd asked if I were to guess it was Gideon. “It’s from the night my parents died, Voldemort did it”.
“You’re the ‘chosen one’?” Dorcas stood up pointing at me “That's what I said when I saw him” Hermione elbowed Ron for that one. “What he’s almost killed us and himself on more than one occasion” “I mean he has a fair point Hermione, you remember the whole Gringotts incident”.
One of the other people in the room is sounded like a male voice asked “ What Gringotts incident?” Both Ron and Hermione looked at me to explain the incident. “Well when we were on the run from Voldemort we had to got in to Gringotts to get something important from one of the older vaults an hour and a half later we’re riding out of there on a half blind dragon”. They all looked at me in shock with a mixture of confusion/impressed looks on there faces as the quick retelling was finished.